by Cleo Mussi | a Day in the Life
Cleo Mussi Drawing with China Cleo Mussi is a modern myth maker, an artist craftsman working in a mosaic medium, whose work has curious circularities. She treads lightly upon the earth picking up and gathering potsherds to clip and grout into fables of modern...
by Despina Stratigakos | Books
Hitler at Home How Interior Design Became a Tool of Dictatorship Like many kings, emperors and maniacal rulers before him, Hitler correctly understood the enduring power of design as a potent tool of propaganda in image-building. He understood its potential both in...
by Admin | Exhibition
Face to Face with Russia’s Greatest Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky – A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to look at Russian cultural icons eye-to-eye The year before the centenary of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and with the...
by Paul Dobraszczyk | Features
Into the Zone: the Ruins of Chernobyl Ever since the Renaissance we have discovered and developed a somewhat morbid pleasure in architectural ruins. The relicts of former civilisations are memento mori on the grandest of scales – deeply evocative and salutary...
by Jeremy Norman | Travel
Himba Land – a Vanishing Authenticity off the Beaten Track Forget the popular Namibian destinations. Travel to the far north to experience the Namib Desert in all its fierce glory and meet a tribe who still follow a traditional, nomadic way-of-life. The intrepid...
by Ian Dejardin | a Day in the Life
At the Helm of the World-Class Dulwich Picture Gallery Ian Dejardin takes us on a tour of his typical day as director of a great British cultural institution – Dulwich Picture Gallery – the world’s first purpose-built public art gallery. Ingeniously...
by Paul Dobraszczyk | Features
Rage against the machine: <br/>Victorian cast iron and its critics In today’s world the previously fluid and protean notion of ‘taste’ appears to have almost vaporised. The problem is that ‘taste’ has been deconstructed out of any...
by Tom Rowland | a Day in the Life
The Protean Proficiencies of Tom Rowland Film maker, composer, and photographer Tom Rowland allows GDC Interiors Journal a sneak peak into a typically unbounded day in his life. Tom may be a jack-of-all-trades with his flexible and multidisciplinary career and...
by Clive Aslet, Introduction by Raci | Architecture, Books
The Country House Ideal – Recent Work by ADAM Architecture There’s no stopping the rise of the traditional English country house now! Evelyn Waugh was not far off the mark when he referred to the English country house as ‘our chief national artistic...
by Robin Dutt | a Day in the Life
Robin Dutt – A Great British Dandy Author, journalist, media consultant, lecturer, bon viveur and great British dandy, Robin Dutt let’s GDC Interiors Journal into a typical culturally crowded day of his life. Specialising in the arts, interior design and...
by Susan Owens | Exhibition
Jonathan Richardson <br/>by Himself When the collection of drawings that had belonged to Jonathan Richardson the Younger was sold at auction in 1772, there was a revelation. Interspersed with Richardson’s Old Masters were well over a thousand drawings by his...
